Nearly 1,900 detained as Turkey protests İstanbul mayor’s arrest for eighth night
Protests across Turkey entered their ninth day following the detention of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on 19 March, jailed on ...
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Turkey: Troops fire in air as villagers protest Diyarbakır sand quarry
Turkish soldiers opened fire into the air on Tuesday to disperse a crowd of villagers protesting the felling of trees ...
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Work with survivors of Yazidi genocide earns trauma expert Federal Cross of Merit
Professor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, a Yazidi academic of Kurdish origin and one of the leading figures in the field of ...
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Leading activist Dr Mahrang Baloch arrested in police crackdown in Pakistan’s Quetta
Dr Mahrang Baloch, a Baloch human rights activist well-known for advocating against enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and other human rights ...
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Protests erupt as Al-Sharaa’s constitution fails to find favour with minorities
A draft constitutional declaration signed by Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Julani) on 13 March has been met with ...
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Afrin’s displaced residents prepare for return home under SDF-Damascus deal
Thousands of displaced people from Afrin (Efrîn), a Kurdish-majority region in northern Syria, are preparing to return home following an ...
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Iran targets women’s rights defenders, activists following International Women’s Day
As the Islamic Republic of Iran's security and intelligence apparatus intensifies its crackdown on Kurdish civil society activists in the ...
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Kurdish writer speaks out after detention, denounces criminalisation of Kurdish language
Kurdish writer Sami Tan, one of three authors recently detained in Turkey for their involvement in publishing the Kurdish language ...
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Structural reforms essential for Turkey’s reconciliation process says prominent human rights defender
Leading human rights lawyer and activist Eren Keskin has delineated the core legal and institutional changes required for an effective ...
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US supports Syrian-Kurdish peace deal but concerned over HTS-led violence
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement on 11 March expressing support for the recent agreement between Syria's ...
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